Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Thanks to the coronavirus, Yosemite National Park is closed, the campgrounds are empty and the trails are void of people. Yosemite Village is normally a crush of humanity and traffic congestion. On Saturday, it was peaceful like few times before — the only sounds coming from the wind and the few local residents. A young bobcat ambled by the nearly abandoned administrative buildings, while ravens prattled and danced in the empty parking lots, and coyotes trotted along the valley’s empty roads and walkways. Tourists aren’t allowed in...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Thanks to the coronavirus, Yosemite National Park is closed, the campgrounds are empty and the trails are void of people. Yosemite Village is normally a crush of humanity and traffic congestion. On Saturday, it was peaceful like few times before — the only sounds coming from the wind and the few local residents. A young bobcat ambled by the nearly abandoned administrative buildings, while ravens prattled and danced in the empty parking lots, and coyotes trotted along the valley’s empty roads and walkways. Tourists aren’t allowed in...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | If there’s one business the coronavirus has kissed with fortune, it’s weed.“Business is up, oh, about one hundred percent,” said Ryan Moran, operations manager for the Flower Co., a marijuana distributor in Arcata — a small college town, seated on Humboldt Bay, just north of Eureka.Moran, who hails from New Jersey, said his company provides next-day delivery for communities in the San Francisco Bay Area, and as of Friday, he expected to start next-day service for Los Angeles, too.“We call it Next Day LA,” he said.The Flower Co.'s offices are in a...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | If there’s one business the coronavirus has kissed with fortune, it’s weed.“Business is up, oh, about one hundred percent,” said Ryan Moran, operations manager for the Flower Co., a marijuana distributor in Arcata — a small college town, seated on Humboldt Bay, just north of Eureka.Moran, who hails from New Jersey, said his company provides next-day delivery for communities in the San Francisco Bay Area, and as of Friday, he expected to start next-day service for Los Angeles, too.“We call it Next Day LA,” he said.The Flower Co.'s offices are in a...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | While animals in deserted without the presence of people, many at the Oakland Zoo seemed downright bored without the crowds.On Monday morning, a pair of mountain lions lolled together lazily in a hammock, while a gibbon couple, Rainer and May, sang and called, before dejectedly lying back in the high branches of the Chinese elm they call home.Since March 17, the Oakland Zoo, a 100-acre wildlife park, has been closed to visitors — by order of state and local governments requiring the public to shelter in place during the coronavirus...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | While animals in deserted without the presence of people, many at the Oakland Zoo seemed downright bored without the crowds.On Monday morning, a pair of mountain lions lolled together lazily in a hammock, while a gibbon couple, Rainer and May, sang and called, before dejectedly lying back in the high branches of the Chinese elm they call home.Since March 17, the Oakland Zoo, a 100-acre wildlife park, has been closed to visitors — by order of state and local governments requiring the public to shelter in place during the coronavirus...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | The coronavirus has shut down most of Humboldt County, as it has the rest of the state, but some traditions of northwest California endure: Loggers keep felling redwoods, and eco-activists keep putting their bodies on the limbs to stop them.Thirty miles north of Eureka, in a coastal forest just east of Highway 101, between tree sitters and loggers enters a new chapter, even after local sawmills have closed.Just off the highway in the town of Trinidad sits an old logging trail on property now owned by the ., a forest products firm.From the...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | The coronavirus has shut down most of Humboldt County, as it has the rest of the state, but some traditions of northwest California endure: Loggers keep felling redwoods, and eco-activists keep putting their bodies on the limbs to stop them.Thirty miles north of Eureka, in a coastal forest just east of Highway 101, between tree sitters and loggers enters a new chapter, even after local sawmills have closed.Just off the highway in the town of Trinidad sits an old logging trail on property now owned by the ., a forest products firm.From the...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement South of San Francisco, the Sequoia Union High School District serves some of the Bay Area’s wealthiest communities, such as Atherton, Menlo Park and Woodside, as well as some of its neediest, including East Palo Alto, North Fair Oaks and Redwood City.On Tuesday, the school district learned it had risen into a state tier that would allow high school students, if they chose, to resume on-campus learning. At the urging of many parents, district leaders on Wednesday announced an April reopening plan.For the record:That is when things...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement South of San Francisco, the Sequoia Union High School District serves some of the Bay Area’s wealthiest communities, such as Atherton, Menlo Park and Woodside, as well as some of its neediest, including East Palo Alto, North Fair Oaks and Redwood City.On Tuesday, the school district learned it had risen into a state tier that would allow high school students, if they chose, to resume on-campus learning. At the urging of many parents, district leaders on Wednesday announced an April reopening plan.For the record:That is when things...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Breaking News Advertisement The second in a rolling through California closed the Grapevine area of the 5 Freeway in Southern California on Monday and forced evacuations along the Central Coast. The wild weather brought hail and snow to areas that do not typically see such conditions. Mountain highways were clogged with traffic; they finally closed as plows worked to keep up with the snowfall. The heavy rain and high winds in coastal Santa Cruz County prompted , with officials warning of the increased potential for debris flows in the San Lorenzo...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Breaking News Advertisement The second in a rolling through California closed the Grapevine area of the 5 Freeway in Southern California on Monday and forced evacuations along the Central Coast. The wild weather brought hail and snow to areas that do not typically see such conditions. Mountain highways were clogged with traffic; they finally closed as plows worked to keep up with the snowfall. The heavy rain and high winds in coastal Santa Cruz County prompted , with officials warning of the increased potential for debris flows in the San Lorenzo...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | When Big Basin fell victim to California’s record-setting wildfires this fall, at least one conservation group and questioned if the state park would ever recover. Two months later, the park remains indefinitely closed, crews are working to clear “hazard trees” — those that could come crashing down — and the debate continues on whether its redwood forest can rebound as it did after past fires. Some scientists say California is entering uncharted territory with climate change, leaving coastal redwoods with conditions that are hotter and less foggy...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | When Big Basin fell victim to California’s record-setting wildfires this fall, at least one conservation group and questioned if the state park would ever recover. Two months later, the park remains indefinitely closed, crews are working to clear “hazard trees” — those that could come crashing down — and the debate continues on whether its redwood forest can rebound as it did after past fires. Some scientists say California is entering uncharted territory with climate change, leaving coastal redwoods with conditions that are hotter and less foggy...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Six hundred miles west of Ecuador’s coast, the Galapagos Islands are a chain of volcanic islands — some still active — home to some of the world’s richest biodiversity and endemism. Nearly 80% of the species found on the islands aren’t found anywhere else on Earth.Along the rocky outcrops, marine iguanas bathe in the hot sun before plunging into the cool waters, where they swim alongside Galapagos penguins, and below the soaring, diving blue-footed boobies.A confluence of oceanic currents meets at the Galapagos, giving rise to the extraordinary...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Six hundred miles west of Ecuador’s coast, the Galapagos Islands are a chain of volcanic islands — some still active — home to some of the world’s richest biodiversity and endemism. Nearly 80% of the species found on the islands aren’t found anywhere else on Earth.Along the rocky outcrops, marine iguanas bathe in the hot sun before plunging into the cool waters, where they swim alongside Galapagos penguins, and below the soaring, diving blue-footed boobies.A confluence of oceanic currents meets at the Galapagos, giving rise to the extraordinary...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Tensions are rising along the Pacific coast of South America as a giant Chinese fishing fleet of roughly 300 vessels moves from the edge of the Galapagos marine preserve to the waters off Peru.Tuesday afternoon, President Trump excoriated China on a variety of issues, ranging from the coronavirus to human rights, in a speech to the United Nations. He singled out Chinese fishing and maritime behavior, saying the country “dumps millions and millions of tons of plastic and trash into the oceans, overfishes other countries’ waters” and...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Tensions are rising along the Pacific coast of South America as a giant Chinese fishing fleet of roughly 300 vessels moves from the edge of the Galapagos marine preserve to the waters off Peru.Tuesday afternoon, President Trump excoriated China on a variety of issues, ranging from the coronavirus to human rights, in a speech to the United Nations. He singled out Chinese fishing and maritime behavior, saying the country “dumps millions and millions of tons of plastic and trash into the oceans, overfishes other countries’ waters” and...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In 2001, a , the planet’s inhabitants would witness higher maximum temperatures, more hot days and heat waves, an increase in the risk of forest fires and “substantially degraded air quality” in large metropolitan areas as a result of climate change.In just the past month, nearly two decades after the was issued, heat records were busted across California, , and in major metropolitan areas, such as and , air pollution has skyrocketed.“This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone,” said Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In 2001, a , the planet’s inhabitants would witness higher maximum temperatures, more hot days and heat waves, an increase in the risk of forest fires and “substantially degraded air quality” in large metropolitan areas as a result of climate change.In just the past month, nearly two decades after the was issued, heat records were busted across California, , and in major metropolitan areas, such as and , air pollution has skyrocketed.“This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone,” said Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for...WW…